Antwerp: Territory of a New Modernity

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ISBN: 9789085067788
English edition
SUN architecture
Softcover, 240 pages
24 x 23 cm
colour
2009
€40,09 (excl. VAT)

Antwerp: Territory of a New Modernity

Bernardo Secchi, Paola Viganò Ed(s)

Series: Explorations

The Structure Plan for Antwerp was drawn up between May 2003 and June 2006. During that period Milan-based architects Bernardo Secchi and Paola Viganò experienced Antwerp's ambitions and its need for a vision. This book measures their ideas and imagination with the myth that is Antwerp, but also with that remarkable contemporary reality of Antwerp – the territory of a New Modernity.

The book shows several possible strategies for urbanistic changes within the city. The authors show that Antwerp is to be seen in different ways: Antwerp as a water-city, Antwerp as a harbour-city, Antwerp as a rail-city, Antwerp as a eco-city… But, by emphasizing the spatial character of the Structure Plan of Antwerp, it clearly breaks with previous planning approaches and it gives new insights.

This book's narrative shuttling between structuring visions, various scenarios, a project atlas and numerous micro-stories illustrates new methods for urbanism, with a very fine balance between reflection and action in urbanism.